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Gentoo: 200306-09 Critical: CUPS Denial of Service Issue

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Calendar Grey June 16, 2003
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Unprivileged individuals could exploit CUPS on Debian, potentially causing interruptions in service through an incorrectly formatted printing request.
CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out.

Summary


GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200306-09


CUPS allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a partial 
printing request to the IPP port (631), which does not time out. 

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-print/cups upgrade to cups-1.1.18-r5 as follows

emerge sync
emerge cups
emerge clean

aliz@gentoo.org - GnuPG key is available at

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security advisory denial of service gentoo critical exploit remote attack CUPS

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PACKAGE : cups
SUMMARY : Denial of service
DATE : 2003-06-14 21:01 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =cups-1.1.18-r5
CVE : CAN-2003-0195

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security advisory denial of service gentoo critical exploit remote attack CUPS

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